Anna Więckowska-Kowalska is an artist, pedagogue and therapist. She graduated from the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland. She finished cultural and pedagogical studies at the University of Łódź and the Faculty of Textile Art of the State Higher School of Visual Arts in Łódź, with an annex in painting from Jerzy Kudukis Studio in 1985. Anna works as a pedagogue and therapist in the Tadeusz Makowski School of Fine Arts in Łódź. She works with unique textile, miniature textile, painting and drawing. She has participated in many exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including the 1^st Artistic Cloth Biennial, Poznań, Poland – distinction (2017); XI Triennale Internationale Des Mini-Textiles “Libres comme l'art !”, Angers, France (2017); the 15^th International Triennial of Tapestry – the 13^th Polish National Exhibition of Unique Textiles in the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź – distinction (2016); the International Baltic Triennial of Miniature Textile in Gdynia, Poland (2004, 2007, 2010 – Grand Prix) and the City of Gdynia Award (2013); distinction at the 10^th Baltic Mini Textile in Gdynia (2016); the International Biennial of Miniature Textile in Szombathely, Hungary (1986, 1988, 1994, 1996, and 1998); the International Triennial of Miniature Textile in Szombathely (2009, 2012, 2015); the Polish National Exhibition of Miniature Textile in Łódź (1998, 1995, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013 – Prize for Best Miniature, and 2016 – nomination for the Prize for Best Miniature); the Polish National Exhibition of the Unique Textiles in Łódź (1992, 2001, 2007, 2010, and 2013); the “Z krosna do Krosna” International Artistic Linen Cloth Biennial in the Museum of Crafts in Krosno, Poland (2006, 2008 – the AKAPI Foundation Award, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016); the 17^th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea “Filare Il Tempo” in Como, Italy (2007); the 4^th International Textile Competition in Kyoto, Japan (1994); the “Configura 1, Kunst in Europa”, Galerie am Fischmarket, Erfurt, Germany (1991); the “Jugend Gestaltet” exhibition, Munich, Germany (1987); and the “Textures et Textiles” exhibition in Luxemburg (1986).